Dennis Potter

Type: Person

Name: Dennis Potter

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

On this day: Braer disaster report | CDs created

National day of Norway.1532: The Court of Session was instituted.1536: Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared marriage of England’s King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn was invalid.1792: United States Stock Exchange founded as 24 merchants and brokers began trading ... [Published The Scotsman - May 17 2013]

Entities: Scottish Radio Holdings plc, Dick Gaughan, Ian Deary, USS Stark (FFG-31)

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 5 reports

Kevin Spacey to give Edinburgh MacTaggart lecture

HOLLYWOOD star Kevin Spacey has been chosen to give an annual keynote speech to TV executives - about how his latest hit show bypassed television channels. The Oscar-winning star will deliver the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture in late August, which ... [Published The Scotsman - May 13 2013]

Entities: Kevin Spacey, Edinburgh (United Kingdom), Elaine Bedell, Trigger Street Productions

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

BBC British Broadcasting Corp

ILLTYD HARRINGTON: Crisis at the BBC – or time for more port and brandy?

For instance, take George Zucco.He was an English actor who specialised in sanctimonious evil. Throughout the 1930s he appeared from the Republic studios in New York – with pervading order of malice and a pounding cold heart.Malignance was always nearby. ... [Published Camden New Journal - May 09 2013]

Entities: BBC British Broadcasting Corp, Chris Patten, Joe McCarthy, Crisis

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

Spring is late. It'll probably be short. So let's make the most of it | Observer editorial

There's no counting on a flaming June, so enjoy what May has to offer April, we know, is the cruellest month. But now – at last – spring is sprung. As our old friend Anon has it: "Summer is icumen in." And about time, too, you will say, after one of the ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 05 2013]

Entities: Dennis Potter, Memory, Encryption, Gratitude

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

ROAD RAGE REPORT: Readers identify worst conditions in county

EDITOR’S NOTE: The LaFollette Press asked its more than 1,800 Facebook fans to identify the worst road conditions in Campbell County. Your responses were overwhelming. From Elkins Road; to Highway 229 in Jellico; to Stinking Creek Road near Interstate ... [Published LaFollette Press - May 03 2013]

Entities: Dennis Potter, Troy Davis, Road Rage

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Rupert Murdoch

A transplanted organ named after Rupert Murdoch? We kidney not … | Media Monkey

Singing Detective writer Dennis Potter famously named his pancreatic cancer "Rupert" , after the News Corporation founder. Now a tale has emerged from Australia of a kidney that donor and recipient are apparently considering giving the same moniker, ... [Published Media: Media Monkey | guardian.co.uk - May 02 2013]

Entities: Kidney, MARK COLVIN, Rupert Murdoch, News International Ltd

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

ECHO Entertainment News: Actress Joanna Holden on playing a child in Blue Remembered Hills at the Liverpool Playhouse

"LAST time I appeared in Liverpool I played a 12-year-old (in Hansel and Gretel), and now I’m playing a seven-year-old – I’m the Benjamin Button of the theatre world," laughs Joanna Holden.Watch out for the actress’ next performance then when, with that ... [Published Liverpool Echo - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Liverpool (United Kingdom), Echo Entertainment Group, Dennis Potter

First reported Apr 27 2013 - Updated Apr 27 2013 - 2 reports

Review: Blue Remembered Hills, Northern Stage, Newcastle

Barbara Hodgson basks in the glow of a new production of Blue Remembered Hills.NORTHERN Stage's new production of Dennis Potter classic Blue Remembered Hills takes willing audiences back to an golden time of childhood innocence. Or is it.Kids can be cruel ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - Apr 27 2013]

Entities: Dennis Potter, BBC British Broadcasting Corp

First reported Apr 09 2013 - Updated Apr 09 2013 - 2 reports

Margaret Thatcher made people angry – and birthed the glory days of British TV

‘Gizza job!” That phrase – “give us a job” – echoed relentlessly through Britain in 1982. It was a catchphrase, almost as commonly heard in conversation as the name of the then prime minister Margaret Thatcher.Thatcher was elected prime minister in 1979. ... [Published Globe and Mail - Apr 09 2013]

Entities: Margaret Thatcher, Alan Bleasdale, Jimmy McGovern, Dennis Potter, Channel 4

First reported Apr 07 2013 - Updated Apr 07 2013 - 1 reports

it’s better to accept the facts of death

From The Telegraph: Iain Banks has written startlingly dark, intelligent novels – most notably The Wasp Factory – but tells the world that the new one will be the last. He announces his coming death with characteristic humour but without darkness, ... [Published 3quarksdaily - Apr 07 2013]

Entities: Iain Banks, Dennis Potter, The Wasp Factory

First reported Feb 24 2013 - Updated Feb 24 2013 - 1 reports

The man who left a generation of children cowering behind the sofa

If the government wants a citizenship test less silly than the current proposals, one word should do the trick: "exterminate". Give it a go. Say it. Say: "exterminate".And if what you say is EX-TER-MI-NATE, on a hoarse monotone, you’re British. Simple. ... [Published The Independent - Feb 24 2013]

Entities: Plumber, Harvey Ball, John Birt, Dennis Potter

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1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 07 2013]
Spring is late. It'll probably be short. So let... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 05 2013]
ROAD RAGE REPORT: Readers identify worst condit... [Published LaFollette Press - May 03 2013]
A transplanted organ named after Rupert Murdoch... [Published Media: Media Monkey \| guardian.co.uk - May 02 2013]
Gavin Haynes' Sleepless Nights: We Should Proba... [Published Vice UK - Apr 30 2013]
ECHO Entertainment News: Actress Joanna Holden ... [Published Liverpool Echo - Apr 29 2013]
Review: Blue Remembered Hills, Northern Stage, ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - Apr 27 2013]
Review: Blue Remembered Hill, Northern Stage, N... [Published Shields Gazette - Apr 27 2013]
Margaret Thatcher made people angry – and birth... [Published Globe and Mail - Apr 09 2013]
Margaret Thatcher stood up for ordinary Britons... [Published Mail Online UK - Apr 09 2013]
Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady’s accidental l... [Published Globe and Mail - Apr 09 2013]
She stood up for ordinary Britons - that's why ... [Published Mail Online UK - Apr 08 2013]
it’s better to accept the facts of death [Published 3quarksdaily - Apr 07 2013]
The man who left a generation of children cower... [Published The Independent - Feb 24 2013]
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Forgotten Martin film gives emotional heft to 1... [Published Tyler Morning Telegraph - Nov 06 2012]
Elizabeth Murdoch warns of threat to press freedom [Published Press Gazette - Aug 24 2012]